I Think Human Beings Wouldn't Be Human

To Feel Estranged From Language Is To Lose Your Own Body.

It Seems To Me That I Will Always Be Happy In The Place Where I Am Not.

The Book That Convinced Me I Wanted To Be A Writer Was 'crime And Punishment'. I Put The Thing Down After Reading It In A Fever Over Two Or Three Days... I Said, 'if This Is What A Book Can Be, Then That Is What I Want To Do.'

I'm Not A Boy-writer, I've Never Been. I Wanted To Be A Boy-writer When I Was Young, And I Think That Held Me Back. I Wanted To Be Very Clever, And Funny, But I'm Not Very Clever And Not Terribly Funny. I've Finally Accepted My Limits, And I Do What I Can Do.

If The World Weren't Such A Beautiful Place, We Might All Turn Into Cynics